Rune of Protection: Green
Enchantment
: The next time a green source of your choice would deal damage to you this turn, prevent that damage.
Cycling 
(, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Urza's Saga
- Price
- $0.15
- EDHREC rank
- #23551
Rune of Protection: Green gives you repeatable, instant-speed damage prevention against green sources for a single white mana activation — the catch is that it only matters when green is the threat at your table. It's a niche piece of protection that earns its slot in dedicated lifegain or enchantment-matters builds, and nowhere else.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Rune of Protection: Green is a meta-read card — if your pod runs Craterhoof Behemoth finishers or heavy green stompy, the cycling alone justifies the one-mana inclusion, but most tables are too diverse for a single-color ward to pull consistent weight. In Legacy and Vintage, the Rune cycle saw fringe sideboard play against mono-green Stompy but never broke through as a staple; faster threats and more efficient answers have long since displaced it. Pauper is its most credible home, where mono-green aggro is a real and consistent archetype and the one-mana cycling cost keeps Rune of Protection: Green from being a dead draw in bad matchups.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.15 bulk tier
At $0.15, Rune of Protection: Green is pure bulk — you're paying for cardboard, not scarcity. Don't expect movement; the entire Rune of Protection cycle sits at this floor and has for years.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.